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by thrixton 3y ago
Yep, once we reach a tipping point, we’ll see a snowball effect where low-margin gas stations are forced to close, others have to push their prices up, BEV’s become even more attractive and so on. With the number of cheap (mostly chinese) B
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by thrixton 3y ago
For generations we’ve had this concern that technology leads to poor outcomes, Johnny just wastes his time watching TV/Gaming etc… Still, parents, due to various factors had to let their kids be kids, and fend for themselves. The kids
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by thrixton 3y ago
SQL the language of choice for data manipulation, to me at least, although I wonder if I’m one of the dinosaurs after 20+ years. After working with MongoDb, CosmosDb and DynamoDb, I’m very happy to be back in a proper SQL world with Postgre
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by thrixton 3y ago
Rsync? MTBF on a WD Green is 1M hours, we’ll replace it at 900K and be golden…
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by thrixton 3y ago
So background play in _select_ cases. Sounds like another regression like when they removed music sync from smart watches when they killed google music and there was no current or eta for an alternative with YT music. Never again google, no
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by thrixton 3y ago
To an extent. Entrenched usage patterns sometimes deserve to be broken, bringing in a new method of operation facilitated by new tech can be a game changer. I’m not in a position to say if this is the case here though, but for one example,
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by thrixton 3y ago
Yep, subversion was a dream compared to VSS, branches that actually worked, what a concept.
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by thrixton 3y ago
I disagree, in a lot of cases a new service would require an update to 1 or 2 stacks only, and only those 2 stacks need deploying. It is in some cases required to do some version of this as the vendor API support does not allow for proper f
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by thrixton 3y ago
Having a prebuilt consistent design system that you don’t have to build out for each project, arguing over defaults among the team is a lifesaver.
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by thrixton 3y ago
Hey Joe, Would this prevent you from integrating some modules such as AWS (I believe) from TF? So much love for Pulumi from me, it’s an amazing product.
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by thrixton 3y ago
It’s not that it’s impossible to parent without them, it’s just the easier path. Parents, just like other people, will often take the easier path for a million different reasons. 10 (more like 20) years ago, the easier path did not exist, o
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by thrixton 3y ago
What flavour? I’d love to be able to configure a proxmox, linux vm through pulumi (or TF if that’s your thing), Ansible seems to be the best option but I’ve not had enough experience to be competent as yet.
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by thrixton 3y ago
Cloud architectures can and should be relatively simple. It’s also a once off (kind of), and there are very established patterns to follow.
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by thrixton 3y ago
Sure, but to a certain extent, that’s survivorship bias. It’s very easy to run something with several 8’s of uptime if you’re not careful. AWS has good patterns to guide you into the pit of success.
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by thrixton 3y ago
Out of curiosity, which particular edge case was this? I’ve hit multiple oddities with cognito (only supporting custom claims in id token), lambda (consuming SQS messages without invoking the function when run in low concurrency). So there
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by thrixton 3y ago
TIL, moodle has not API, cross that off my list of software I’d ever recommend, thanks.
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by thrixton 3y ago
With all due respect, I think this is a bit too simplistic. You cannot “teach” anyone anything, especially as they grow older, you can model the behaviour you desire, but even then, they have to want to ape their parents behaviour, unlikely
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by thrixton 3y ago
I’ve eradicated 2 nests of european wasps here in Australia by dumping a pretty strong solution of dish soap and water down the nest. Carefully, at night, with red light just to be sure. They are the most aggressive pests I’ve ever had the
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by thrixton 3y ago
This is very valuable advice. Find a niche, do one thing and do it well. You do you. Or if you want to be a generalist, that's very valid too, but again, you do you. The constant glorification of growth and the massive industry built a
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by thrixton 3y ago
Absolutely. Here in Australia at least, we have signs stating that "All bags must be presented for inspection" when leaving stores. These have no legal basis and customers are free to refuse, which I did in the past, I guess I ha
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by thrixton 3y ago
I’d more ask what the cost vs benefits are of keeping the existing scheme, it’s not free to run all these DRM services, prosecute offenders etc… Not to say I support no copyright…
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by thrixton 3y ago
It’s important to note that only some copyrighted works can be accessed for free using the legal options, I’m a member of probably a dozen overdrive supporting libraries and still frequently find titles unavailable for loan of any kind. I’d
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by thrixton 3y ago
Or maybe they actually do have the experience and are sick and tired of people trotting out trite advice which is at best ignored and at worst draws attention away from the real issues by focusing people on useless advice which can be used
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by thrixton 3y ago
I’d put higher aggression (and capability to act on such) into the mix as well. From a long time ago, we were the aggressive hunters, warmongers, protectors of everything that “belonged” to us, including women and children. To this day, we’
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by thrixton 3y ago
Good points there, we look for recommendations from the tribe, forgetting at times that the tribe is composed of individuals with varying, evolving tastes.
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by thrixton 3y ago
Is that this one? https://course.fast.ai/
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by thrixton 3y ago
Seconded. I really struggled reading the first one though, then I listened to the other two on audible and they were great. Well worth it if you can get them from Audible or Overdrive.
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by thrixton 3y ago
This is a step in the right direction, if someone could come up with a simple enough but extensible enough de-facto standard for multiple “profile”, our lives would be immensely enriched.
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by thrixton 3y ago
I totally agree, and with their recent relaxation of the license tiers, they really seem like a consumer friendly company. I wish them well.
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by thrixton 3y ago
I guess with the entrance of Amazon with Prime, this is becoming more normal now. A heap of the shoe brands / retailers at least have free returns and shipping (with minimum spend maybe though).

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